Alan,

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:20:32 +0100, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

> >If the runway is very wide (ie, 50 feet?  100 feet?) and the
> >photographer low to the ground (5 feet off the ground, 400 feet away)
> >then the shadows would look very similar to what we see in the photo.
> 
> At Fairford the runway is wide enough to take a B52 ... I guess that makes 
> it pretty wide ... 

Standard RAF runways dating from WWII are 46m wide (150 feet in old money).  And the centreline is much wider than 
you'd expect - people expect it to be like the lines on roads, but they start at about two feet wide and go up from 
there!

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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